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Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought‑provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49518584070417,"sku":"GOR009601171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300221606.jpg?v=1751228310"},{"product_id":"when-the-world-spoke-french-book-marc-fumaroli-9781590173756","title":"When The World Spoke French","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In \u003ci\u003eWhen the World Spoke French\u003c\/i\u003e, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These men and women, despite their differences, were all irresistibly attracted to the ideal of human happiness inspired by the Enlightenment, whose capital was Paris and whose king was Voltaire. Whether they were in Paris or far away, speaking French connected them in spirit with all those who desired to emulate Parisian tastes, style of life, and social pleasures. 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Magistral essai posthume, Dans ma bibliotheque propose un nouveau regard sur le monde actuel tout aussi lucide et desillusionne que celui de Paul Valery et ou la surete du savoir est servie par toutes les ressources de l'eloquence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49617754521873,"sku":"GOR013561797","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2251452044.jpg?v=1751432478"},{"product_id":"what-language-to-say-the-arts-book-marc-fumaroli-9780807164150","title":"What Language to Say the Arts?","description":"Taking its cue from Horace's saying \"\"As is painting, so is poetry\"\" (\"\"Ut pictura poesis\"\"), Marc Fumaroli's treatise What Language to Say the Arts? revisits the genesis of the \"\"conceptual turn\"\" in art. Fumaroli argues that the roots of this transition run deeper than the twentieth-century conceptualism of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Rather, the origins of conceptual art can be found in the emergence of aesthetics as a distinct branch of philosophy in eighteenth-century Germany, a time when writers, such as Lessing, Baumgarten, Winckelmann, and Kant, tried to analyze art from a purely intellectual perspective. These thinkers positioned themselves in opposition to another, older school of thought based on a poetic approach to the appreciation of art that harkens back to classical antiquity. Fumaroli contends that this classical tradition's emphasis on pleasure and the sensual enjoyment of art is better suited than high-minded intellectualism to close the perceived gap between artistic practice and language.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52327355613457,"sku":"NGR9780807164150","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53588761608465,"sku":"NIN9780807164150","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780807164150.jpg?v=1762596121"},{"product_id":"poet-and-the-king-book-marc-fumaroli-9780268038779","title":"The Poet and the King","description":"The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as \"the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of La Fontaine,\" is being offered for the first time in an English translation. La Fontaine, whose works are still memorized by French schoolchildren, is regarded by Fumaroli, and countless others, as the greatest French lyric poet of the seventeenth century. La Fontaine is best known, however, for his fables and Contes.   Marc Fumaroli's grand study is almost as much about Louis XIV as it is about La Fontaine. He provides a detailed analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the king and his ministers to enforce an official cultural style. Fumaroli's work is a meditation on the plight of the artist under such a ruler during the imposition of a tyrannical, centralized political regime.   Of particular interest to Fumaroli is Nicolas Foucquet, whose fall from power is the central event of the book. Foucquet, La Fontaine's patron, was arrested and imprisoned by order of Louis XIV on false charges of embezzlement and treason. For La Fontaine, the arrest was a disaster. Foucquet had generously supported and protected La Fontaine, who remained loyal to him for decades, helping in his defense and writing pleas for pardon. Many of Foucquet's associates were arrested. Others, including La Fontaine, prudently left town.   During the reign of Louis XIV, the basic role of literature in the eyes of the court was that of an official propaganda machine. The royal cultural policy supported only tragedy and the heroic ode, and demanded works that praised the king. In the years that followed Foucquet's arrest, La Fontaine had to rely on support from groups unconnected with the government, including Jansenists, Protestants, and the libertine, homosexual circle of the Duc de Vendôme.   Fumaroli reads history with an eye on the modern world. His La Fontaine and his Foucquet, his world of free culture in opposition to state power, are models for the liberal vision of the possible role of culture in modern society. 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